When the Trust Taplins Childcare and Learning Centre opened two years ago, it was one of the first of its kind in the country. Based at the Western Community Hospital in Southampton, it provides a range of health and childcare training courses, as well as creche facilities which enable parents to leave their children in safe hands
while they undertake training.
The 2.3m resource centre is funded by a combination of its local PCT, West Hampshire Trust and the Southampton Universities Hospital NHS Trust, the Outer Shirley Regeneration Project, the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative and Sure Start. It was opened in May 2004 by former children's minister Margaret Hodge and has gone from strength to strength.
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